Ling Zhi followed the guard and hurried to the training ground of the City Lord's Mansion.

The training ground of the City Lord's Mansion occupies a huge area, and Du Ruoran's practice hall cannot be compared to it at all. As soon as he came to the training ground, he saw that the city lord's palace guards of the brigade were all over the training ground. Every city lord's palace guard has a murderous look in his eyes, equipped with a sharp blade on his waist, hiding a killing intention, and holding a huge black mastiff in his hand, the scarlet tongue of the military mastiff is left outside his mouth, and a pair of big gurgling eyes are closely monitoring the surroundings.

Ling Zhi knew that these military mastiffs were unique to the northwest, they liked to eat raw meat and were extremely fierce, and even dared to fight with the strong.

In addition, the guards of the City Lord's Mansion are different from the guards of Du Ruoran Du Shengtang, the guards of the City Lord's Mansion are only under the orders of the City Lord, and every City Lord's Mansion guards are selected from the city guards of Tongxi City, and their strength is far beyond that of ordinary soldiers.

Ling Zhi suddenly felt a solemn atmosphere, and hurriedly rushed to the center of the training ground. Ling Zhi saw that Du Ruoran and Du Shengtang were on the side, and there were several other children who should be the bloodline of other city lords, and a large group of backbones of the city lord's mansion were all gathered, and they didn't speak at the moment.

When Du Ruoran saw Ling Zhi coming, he hurriedly gave Ling Zhi a look and asked him to come to his side. After Ling Zhi came to Du Ruoran's side, he didn't speak again.

In the center of the training ground, a man in brocade clothes carried everyone on his back, his black hair exuded a sense of nobility, and he carried his hands on his waist, like a tall mountain standing in front of everyone.

This should be the city lord Du Tianhao, the most honorable person in Tongxi City, there is no one.

"Do you know what our Du family is in charge of this Tongxi City?"

Du Tianhao suddenly spoke faintly, and his voice was transmitted to everyone's ears, clear and majestic.

"Mingtang, you come"

As soon as Du Tianhao's words fell, Ling Zhi saw a young man walking out of the crowd, and it turned out that this person was Du Mingtang, the second son of the city lord Du Tianhao.

"Back to my father, our Du family followed His Majesty the Emperor and made great achievements for the expansion of the entire empire, and then His Majesty the Emperor gave this city to our Du family, allowing our Du family to continue to be the hereditary city lord of this city, so our Du family can rely on the trust of His Majesty the Emperor to be in charge of this city, and rely on the vast imperial grace of His Majesty the Emperor to be in charge of this city."

Du Mingtang's tone was neither fast nor slow, and he responded without anger, in the eyes of others, Du Mingtang will always be such a person who is not happy, slow or angry, calm and indifferent.

"What you said does make some sense, back then, our Du family followed His Majesty the Emperor to conquer the Hu people in the northwest, several martial arts powerhouses of our Du family, besieged by many strong people in the Hu people's lineage, they drove the beasts to encircle and suppress the people and horses led by our Du family, in that battle, several of the strongest people of our Du family were destroyed, which was exchanged for our honor today. But what you're saying is actually false."

Du Haotian turned around as he spoke, with a grim face and eyes staring directly at Du Mingtang.

"The trust of others has never been what we rely on, what we rely on is only ourselves, our own martial arts strength, if you think about it, if our Du family does not have martial arts strength, can we still be in charge of this Tongxi City?"

Du Haotian's words shocked the people of the Du family below. Then I only heard Du Haotian continue.

"Therefore, I allow open and secret fights between several of you, and even I am especially willing to let your subordinates fight and fight with their real lives, so as to stimulate your potential and let you know that this world is extremely cruel."

When Ling Zhi heard Du Haotian's words, he was shocked, and then he understood why Du Shengtang dared to kill in Du Ruoran's practice hall so blatantly, and killed so many of his subordinates, it turned out that these were all allowed in the eyes of the city lord Du Haotian.

"However, there must be a premise for this, that is, you can't use sneak attacks and assassinations to kill such inferior tricks, if you want to fight, you have to come clearly, and when the strength reaches a certain level, those methods of inferior indiscriminate must be useless."

Du Haotian continued, without a trace of expression fluctuation on his face, and the Du family did not speak or make any sound when he heard it below.

"Shengtang has just been attacked, do you have anything to say?"

After Du Haotian finished speaking, his eyes glanced at everyone present, everyone trembled when they were glanced at by him, Ling Zhi knew that this city lord Du Haotian was definitely also a martial arts powerhouse.

That's right, the entire empire respects martial arts, establishes the country with martial arts, and martial arts is the true way of foundation.

"Father, I have something to say"

Du Ruoran said.

"The eldest brother once came to my practice hall to discuss with my escort team, in fact, death and injury were inevitable if I learned, and I didn't take it to heart, but just now the eldest brother was attacked and killed, and it was blatantly attacked and killed in the house, everyone suspected that I sent someone to do it, I personally think that in order to prove my innocence, I am willing to investigate this matter in person."

After Du Ruoran finished speaking, everyone was slightly shocked.

Ling Zhi also glanced at Du Ruoran in surprise, and Du Ruoran said these words directly, without any scruples at all, and put everything on the bright side.

"Interesting, if this matter is left to you, in a few days the third prince of Ding Guogong will come to our Tongxi City, this time I don't want anything to happen, otherwise, I will personally kill all restless existences"

Du Haotian's eyes burst out with a fierce aura, enveloping everyone.

Ling Zhi thought silently in his heart, what kind of big man is this, since he is a duke, he must be terrifyingly powerful.

"Shengtang, the third prince will go to Tongxi City in a few days, I heard that the third prince has always liked hunting, you and your people go to the Hundred Beast Mountain outside the city to clean up, and prepare in advance, so as not to be hit by some powerful beast at that time."

"Mingtang, you have arranged the accommodation and diet of the third son, remember not to be careless"

Du Haotian directly ordered, and Du Shengtang and Du Mingtang nodded one after another.

"Yanran, you have to dress up well, the third prince has not married a wife yet, you and him are just the right age, if you have a relationship with Ding Guogong this time, then even our Du family can go further"

Du Haotian turned his head and said to another beautiful girl who was somewhat similar to Du Ruoran.

"Good"

Du Yanran said calmly, and didn't say anything else.

Du Haotian arranged all the things one after another, and he acted vigorously and resolutely, never dragging the mud and water.

"Father, what kind of person is this Ding Guogong, he can help our Du family go further, does he have such a lot of energy?"

Du Shengtang suddenly spoke.

"This Duke of Ding Guo is not an ordinary honorable relative, he is the real power figure of the Dazhi Imperial Court and the leader of the Wutang. The three heavy words of Ding Guogong represent the supreme glory and power position in this huge empire, even the elders of the Ling Xiao cabinet have to give three points when they see Ding Guogong, outside the court, Ding Guogong is in charge of the martial arts, and the martial arts power that can be mobilized is immeasurable."

"Needless to say, the Zhangwutang established by His Majesty the Emperor in order to control the martial arts forces in the world is a terrifyingly powerful and violent institution, where the martial arts are as strong as Hengsha, countless martial arts forces are bowing to the Zhangwutang, trembling, if the Zhangwutang needs, all the institutions and yamen have to be at their disposal, this time there will also be a strong man in the Zhangwutang to protect the three princes, you will know then"

"So if Yanran can get the favor of the third prince, then our Du family will be able to catch the behemoth of Ding Guogong, and it can be regarded as a big backer in the turbulent dark tide within the entire empire, you know?"

Du Haotian said slowly, hearing that everyone's faces changed, and they were also shocked by Du Haotian's words.

Ling Zhi listened to Du Haotian's words, and probably understood what was going on, there was such a bullish character who was going to come to Tongxi City, and Du Haotian, as the city lord, of course had to seize the opportunity.

"By the way, if so, I heard that you have a kid with good cultivation, who is it, I also heard that there is a person who is suspected of ascending to the hall refining realm in the end, I can't see that if you rein in people's hearts, you still have two hits"

Du Haotian's tone changed, and the topic was brought to Du Ruoran's side.

"Ling Zhi, come up"

When Du Ruoran heard this, he said directly to Ling Zhi, and when Ling Zhi heard this, he hurriedly walked up and entered Du Haotian's sight.

"Villain Ling Zhi, I've seen the city lord"

Ling Zhi clenched his fists and said in a deep voice.

"I observed it just now, and among Ruoran's subordinates, you seem to have the most calm martial arts momentum, not bad."

Du Haotian's eyes directly glanced at Ling Zhi, and Ling Zhi instantly felt like he had been shocked, this look was really terrifying.

"Liberal"

Du Haotian snorted.

"Whoosh!"

I saw an old man in sackcloth behind him burst out with a shocking momentum in an instant, and his body jumped violently towards Ling Zhifei, like a hungry wolf preying on its prey, and there was a sound of air tearing behind him.

Everyone couldn't react!

Ling Zhi's brain suddenly became confused, and all consciousness and perception lost their proper function in an instant.

Oops, what's going on?

Ling Zhi's brain was blank, and the gale in his body was like an endless river washing over his spiritual platform, and suddenly his pupils were clear.

The old man's eyes flashed with surprise.

"Bang"

As soon as he came back to his senses, Ling Zhi saw the old man smash a fist mark fiercely, a punch smashed into his chin, and his body was smashed into the distance uncontrollably.

Ling Zhi rolled a few times in a row, his body froze, his mouth was full of blood, and he raised his head and looked at the old man and Du Haotian behind the old man with a shocked expression.

"Father, what are you..."

Du Ruoran saw that his people were beaten away, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked.